词根词缀：-ism, -ismus

【来源及含义】Greek, ismos; Latin, ismus: a suffix: belief in, practice of, condition of, process, characteristic behavior or manner, abnormal state, distinctive feature or trait

【同源单词】abaptism, abolitionism, abortionism, abrakophilism, absenteeism, absolutism

词根词缀：meta-, met-, meth-

【来源及含义】Greek: after, behind, beyond; changed in form, altered; higher [used to designate a higher degree of a branch of science]

【同源单词】acrometagenesis, allochemical metamorphism, atmometamorphism, brachymetapody, digitometatarsal, ectrometacarpia

词根词缀：morpho-, morph-, -morphous, -morphically, -morphia, -morphosis, -morphously, -morphy, -morphic, -morphism

【来源及含义】Greek: shape, form, figure, appearance

【相关描述】The Roman god of sleep is Somnus; so, when we are sleepy, we are "somnolent". Sleep walking is "somnambulism" which in Latin means exactly the same thing; that is, "sleepwalking".

The son of Somnus is Morpheus, the god of dreams, indicating that sleep gives birth to dreams. Morpheus goes back through Latin to the Greek word for "form" or "shape" because dreams are forms and shapes developed in the mind while sleeping.

【相关词根词缀】 Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units dealing with "form, shape, appearance": eido-; figur-; form-; icono-; ideo-; imag-; -oid; typo-.

【同源单词】acrostomorphilia, actinomorphic, actinomorphous, actinomorphy, adelomorphous, aeromorphosis

词根词缀：pyro-, pyr-

【来源及含义】Greek: fire, burn, burning, heat, produced by heating, hot; and sometimes also referring to "fever as shown at this link"

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word groups that are related, directly, indirectly, or partly to: "fire, burn, glow, or ashes": ars-, ard-; -bust; cand-, cend-; caust-, caut-; crema-; ciner-; ether-; flagr-; flam-; focus, foci-; fulg-; gehenna-; ign-; phleg-; phlog-; pyreto-, -pyrexia; spodo- (ashes; waste); volcan-.

【同源单词】antipyrotic, empyrean, empyromancy, glossopyrosis, purogenic distillation, pyracanth